This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... That, however, is not the fault of the commandment, for rightly understood it does not discourage art. Under the Mosaic dispensation the cherubim (Ex. xxxvii. 7-9), the brazen serpent (Num. xxi. 9), etc., were prepared. And we find similar works of art on a grander scale in the temple (1K. vi. 23-29; ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879 edition. Excerpt: ... That, however, is not the fault of the commandment, for rightly understood it does not discourage art. Under the Mosaic dispensation the cherubim (Ex. xxxvii. 7-9), the brazen serpent (Num. xxi. 9), etc., were prepared. And we find similar works of art on a grander scale in the temple (1K. vi. 23-29; vii. 23-37), and palace (x. 18-20) of Solomon. The commandment was not directed against the making of images, but against making them as objects of worship. Ingersoll further affirms that the Bible is not inspired in respect to morals. After putting the question: "Is there a man, is there a woman here who believes in the institution of polygamy? and anticipating their reply "no, we do not," he says: "Then you are better than your God was four thousand years ago. Four thousand years ago he believed in it, taught it and upheld it." "Where, I ask, does he teach it? Does Moses say like Mohammed, that a man may take two, three, or even four wives?1 No. There are only six verses in regard to the subject. According to Exodus xxi, 9,10, it is said that if a father take another wife for his son in addition to the maid-servant whom he has betrothed to him, he is not to diminish the rights of the latter. In Lev. xviii, 18, it is prohibited that a man should take his wife's sister during her life-time. In Deut. xxi, 15-17 we read: "If a man have two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated (or less beloved); and if the first-born son be hers that was hated, then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved first-born before the son of the hated, which is indeed the first-born," that is we...
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